TISS-NET is a common screening test for all full time Masters Programmes across all the TISS campuses - Mumbai, Tuljapur, Guwahati and Hyderabad. TISS-NET is aimed at short-listing candidates for Stage 2 based on differential cut-offs for different programmes depending on the number of seats, number of applicants and the scores secured by the candidates.

XAT 2020 was conducted by XLRI Jamshedpur for admission to Business Management and Human Resource Management programmes, on 5 January, 2020. XAT score is also used by many reputed institutes such as SP Jain, IMT Ghaziabad, XIM Bhubaneshwar, GIM Goa, and others as a part of their admission process.